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Fargo burger place King Leo's goes out of business

King Leo's, 1443 42nd St. S., Fargo, closed its doors Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, according to a post on the restaurant's Facebook page. Forum file photo

FARGO—King Leo's has closed its doors, a little more than a year since a new incarnation of the old burger place opened near West Acres Shopping Center.

The restaurant, which opened in November 2015 at 1443 42nd St. S., closed the night of Saturday, Dec. 31, according to a post on the business Facebook page. The short post also thanked customers for their business.

The eatery was only open for 13 months, but its roots in Fargo stretch back decades before that. The original King Leo's opened in 1960, and other locations also opened in Grand Forks and Minot, N.D., before the burger place closed in 1978.

Tom Poole, co-owner of the new version of King Leo's, told The Forum when the restaurant opened that its site at a busy intersection in Fargo meant about 19,000 vehicles drove by every day.

Ryan Johnson has been a Forum reporter since 2012 and previously wrote for the Grand Forks Herald.

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